Germany Vs Uruguay Played for Third Place

2010 FIFA Worldcup SouthAfrica:The last chance for both Germany and Uruguay to satisfy their World Cup disappointment.

Germany and Uruguay will raise themselves for one last game Saturday for third place in the World Cup football at Port Elizabeth's Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Germany will find it particularly difficult to motivate themselves after Wednesday's 1-0 defeat to European champions Spain consigned the Mannschaft to a second World Cup semi-final defeat in succession.

Octopus Paul says, Spain for 1st, Germany for 3rd

Germany: Again Octopus Choosen the country which won the Match

Spanish fans had reason to celebrate Friday after Paul the Octopus forecast that Spain will beat Netherlands to win their first World Cup on Sunday. The world glorious octopus at Aquarium Sea Life in Oberhausen, Germany, also forecast Germany would beat Uruguay in the title for third place on Saturday.
This Logic having already correctly predicted four Germany victories and two losses in this tournament.Two glass cubes were baited with mussels and mentioned with flags of Spain and Netherlands. Paul went directly to the Spanish tank and ate its mussel. Half an hour earlier, the octopus choose the mussel in Germany's tank over the confines of those marked with the Uruguay flag.

Netherlands Beat Uruguay

2010 FIFA Worldcup: Match 61

Netherland reached their first World Cup final since 1978. when the current pick finally stepped out of the shade of Total Football to hit battling Uruguay 3-2 in a excellent semi-final on Tuesday. They will face either Germany or Spain, who assemble in Durban on Wednesday, in a showdown that now guarantees a first European World Cup triumph on a foreign continent.

2010 FIFA Worldcup: Dutch struggle back buries Brazil

The Netherlands came from at the back to break Brazilian hearts and take a huge step towards a third FIFA World Cup 2010 final appearance. Trailing at half-time to Robinho's early goal in Port Elizabeth, Bert van Marwijk's men drew level through Felipe Melo's own goal previous to Wesley Sneijder headed the winner with 22 minutes remaining. Brazil finished the game a man short after Felipe Melo's dismissal as, like in Germany four years ago, the South Americans, victorious since last October, saw their dream of a sixth world crown dismantled at the quarter-final stage.

For the Dutch, this was their fifth instantly win at these finals and leaves them one victory short of a first Final appearance since they finished runners-up twice in the 1970s. They will journey to Tuesday's Cape Town semi-final against Uruguay as favourites despite the suspensions of Gregory van der Wiel and Nigel de Jong. History will also be on their side too, given the winners of their three previous FIFA World Cup meetings with Brazil marched on to the Final each time.

2010 FIFA Worldcup:Ghana give the penalty

Ghana became the final African team to say goodbye to the 2010 FIFA World Cup 2010, losing in a impressive penalty shoot-out to Uruguay after a 1-1 quarter-final draw at Johannesburg's Soccer City. Goalkeeper Fernando Muslera saved efforts from Stephen Appiah and Dominic Adiyiah, before Sebastian Abreu improved the crucial spot-kick for the South Americans, who reach the last four for the first time since 1970.


The Black Stars will have to be satisfied with having become just the third side from the continent to make the quarter-final stage, although they could have won the match with the final kick of additional time after Luis Suarez handled a goal-bound effort on the line. But with Suarez sent off, their top scorer, Asamoah Gyan, destroyed a penalty off the bar that would have tipped the scales to the Africans after Sulley Muntari and Diego Forlan had scored either side of half-time.